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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
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